Two recent titles from the American Planning Association warrant mention. Planners And The Census: Census 2010, ACS, Factfinder, And Understanding Growth from the American Planning Association’s Planning Advisory Service provides insight into the increasingly popular American Community Survey and how planners can use statistics…
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Approaching Transportation Research: Our Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Started & Up-To-The-Minute Bibliographies For Hot Transportation Topics
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Whether you need answers fast or you are not familiar with a subject or its terminology, a timely and effective quest for knowledge can be challenging. Transit and transportation research can be especially daunting. These fields of study are interdisciplinary…
Before “Subway To The Sea,” There Was “Streetcar In The Sea”: Creating Artificial Reefs Off The Los Angeles Coast In 1959
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The recent photo essays in the New York Times and Fast Company featuring stunning photos of NY MTA subway cars being dumped into the sea inspired us to tell our own similar story from half a century ago. The July,…
50 Years Ago This Week: Planning The El Monte – Century City Backbone Route (Complete With Nuclear Fallout Shelters, Large-Capacity Helicopters And A Beverly Hills Subway)
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In May of 1961, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority unveiled its plans for the Backbone Route – the 22.7-mile-long first leg of yet another rapid transit proposal for Los Angeles. After Wilshire Corridor stakeholders squelched the idea for a Los Angeles monorail system…
Watch Ellen Dunham-Jones On Retrofitting Suburbia: Updated Urban Design Solutions For Redesigning Suburbs
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Last year, author and Georgia Tech professor Ellen Dunham-Jones spoke to an Atlanta audience on the topic of “retrofitting suburbia,” delivering a riveting 20-minute TED Talk, one of the first for that website. Her landmark work on this subject, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions…
Online Access To Environmental Impact Reports & Statements: Metro’s New Digital Library Of Los Angeles Transit Project Documents
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Among the most vital core resources that tell the story of how Los Angeles’ transit projects were planned are those contained within our environmental impact report and environmental impact statement documents. Now, many of them are found in our new collection of online EIRs/EISs which date back…
$20 Per Gallon: How The Inevitable Rise In The Price Of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives For The Better
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What will happen as gasoline prices steadily climb even higher? At $6 a gallon, Americans will begin embracing diesel engines. At $8, many airlines will shut down, leaving Southwest Airlines and JetBlue as the dominant domestic carriers. At $10 a gallon, we should…
72 Years Ago Today, Union Station Is Born: The Story And Photos From The Citywide Fight Over A Central Rail Terminal
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Happy Birthday to Los Angeles’ primary passenger rail facility, which turns 72 years old today. Union Station is not only a beautiful neighbor of ours here at Metro’s Gateway Headquarters, but a part of the family now as well. Metro purchased Union Station…